Chris Goode, Dante Or Die

User Not Found (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

It's the moment of your death.

There's a magic button.

Do you delete your entire online legacy?

Or do you keep it - and leave the choice for someone else?

USER NOT FOUND is about our digital lives after we die. Dante or Die's play, created with pioneering theatre-artist Chris Goode, is inspired by a Guardian article by Caroline Twigg about dealing with her late husband's digital afterlife. In the play Terry becomes responsible for the online legacy of his partner - he is flooded with condolence texts and messages about his partner's death, and then has to decide what to keep and what to delete.

The performance was originally developed with creative technologists Marmelo, and was performed in a café, where the audience share Terry's story through smartphones and headphones. In this format the play was performed in cafés across the country, including at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe.

The audience become a fly-on-the-wall to peer into the life of a man who is faced with keeping or deleting. A story of contemporary grief unfolds through this intimate, funny performance that gently interrogates our need for connection. "With his tender script, [Goode] hands us each the weight of the internet and asks how we get closure in a world where nothing ever switches off." The Guardian.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 88
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786825322
• Artikelnr.: 53467557

Autorenporträt

Chris Goode's plays include Speed Death of the Radiant Child (The Drum, Theatre Royal Plymouth, 2007), King Pelican (The Drum, Theatre Royal Plymouth, 2009), The Loss of All Things (The Bush Theatre, 2011), Monkey Bars (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 2012), God/Head (Ovalhouse Theatre, London, 2012), Men in the Cities (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 2014), Infinite Lives (Tobacco Factory, Bristol, 2014), Mad Man (The Drum, Theatre Royal Plymouth, 2014) and Mirabel (Ovalhouse Theatre, London, 2018). In 2017, he adapted and directed Derek Jarman's Jubilee for the Royal Exchange, Manchester and the Lyric Hammersmith.